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Friday, 18 November 2011

At Last - Christmas Cards

Well, tag cards - close enough! Hello! As Christmas is almost upon us (or it feels like it!), I thought I should make a start, so I've made a couple of cards for the other two finance ladies I work with - they will be pleased, as they never got one at all last year (I was sooo late)!!!

I made these tags using Tim H's technique highlighted in the 12 Tags Of Christmas 2009, Day 7, and featured at Studio L3 last week - thank you Linda, I've not seen the 12 tags of Xmas before! I really wanted to play in this challenge, but was too late unfortunately. I've used the same technique on both tags, detailed step-by-step in the link above, however I used acetate to make the mask and sprayed a little stick n spray on back, as I don't have the proper TH mask sheets.

Tag Card #1

After stamping the image, I stamped flourishes with acrylic paint, added lighter shades of DI, masked main image and added darker shades of DI, stamped background text then blotted acrylic flourishes with damp tissue. I stamped the sentiment with Versamark and embossed in a gold metallic.

Tag Card # 2

Both tags have been mounted onto Kraft cardstock which I've cut to size and inked the edges.

The main image is from Crafty Individuals, the background scrip/text stamp is from an Andy Skinner set called Simply Angelic from the Craft-Room, and the flourishes are from La Blanche.

12 comments:

Wow this is gorgeous ! Did I mention I love CI stamps ! Great techniques on here and love the nostalgic feel it has ! The colouring is superb as is the masking. Am of to London tomorrow and your gift is ion the post hope you enjoy !

About Me

Hi, my name's Maria and I live in Manchester with my partner Dave, my daughter Hannah and grandson Ethan, our springer spaniel Jack, and four cats. I love wall hangings and other bits and bobs, and even cards sometimes, and particularly love rubber stamping. I work full time in accounting so it's a nice way to wind down and leave work behind and disappear into my own little space. xxxxx